Clamping band for tree limbs



June 21 1927. 1,633,090

'C. D. GILMAN CLAHPING BAND FUR TREE LINBS Filed Ju1y 27, 1926 l/v VE/V TOR Patented June 21, 1927 CHARLES as r was ta esme- GLAMPING BAND ronrnn'npnnvms;

Application filed July 27, 1926. Serial No 125,177.

This invention relates to apparatus for supporting tree limbs such as disclosed in United States Letters Patent entitled Tree limb support, 1,604,095, issued to me, dated October 19, 1926, and particularly pertains to a clamping band disclosed in this prior patent but not claimed therein.

It is the principal object of the present invention to provide an improved clamping band for use in connection with apparatus such as disclosed in theprior application referred to, which clamping band may be easily and quickly connected to supporting wires and is of a construction giving it maximum crushing strength to prevent it from becoming distorted in use.

One form which the lnvention may assume is exemplified in the following description and illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 shows aplan view of a centrally arranged disk or plate with a plurality of wires threaded therethrough.

Fig. 2 shows av plan view of the clamping 5 band in place on the limb of the tree with the wire end fastened thereto.

Fig. 3 shows a vertical sectional View of the clamping band in place on a tree limb and taken on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 shows a plan view of a tie wire bent into the form of an elongated U or bail for convenience in threading the central ring or plate thereon.

Fig. 5 shows a plan View of the clamping band illustrating the manner of connecting the end of a tie wire thereto.

I prefer to make use of a plate or disk 1Ov having a series of perforations 11 around its periphery. The wires 12, before being assembled on the disk 10, are bent in the form of an elongated U or bail, as shown in Fig. 4. The plate or disk is strung on as many of these wires as may be required to support the limbs. This is done by passing the legs of each U-shaped wire through oppositely disposed openings 11 and thereafter bending the legs outwardly, so that they extend in opposite directions, as shown in'Fig. 1. A sort of a web is thus formed and this can be done while the workman is on the ground. Thereafter the web can be laid in the tree with the disk or plate occupying a central position therein.

This type of apparatus is disclosed and by passing it through aligned apertures or o enin s 15 in the lu s of the clam in band C b p b and then forming a U bend in the end of the wire, as show in Fig. 5. The terminal of the U bend is then passed back through the remaining aligned openings in the lugs of the clamping band. The wire 12 is then drawn to clamp the lugs together and then bent at an angle as shown in Fig. 2. The end of the wire is also bent at an angle to lock the lugs together. Such a fastening has been found to afford great security. It also eliminates the necessity of twisting the wires into such shapes as the so-oalled bailers twist and telephone twist. A further advantage is that it can be accomplished quickly, easily and without tools.

The shape of the clamping band is important.

to the crushing strength of the band and also prevents its being distorted, and, in addition, gives an interior smooth and rounded surface for contact with the tree. The triangular shape of the band afiords greater strength and adapts the band to many different sizes and shapes of objects and is self-centering. On small sizes of tree limbs the triangular band will have contact at two points, whereas in larger sizes it may contact with the limb at three points.

Such clamping band and mode of connecting a. tie wire thereto may obviously be used for many different purposes.

Various changes in the construction and arrangement of the several parts herein shown and described may be employed without departing from the spirit of my invention, as defined in the appended claim.

It will be noted that its sides are made convex, as shown in Fig. 8. This adds Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

Means for attaching a tie Wire to an object to be supported comprising a clamping band triangular in plan and formed with convex side walls, one end of the clamping band being open, opposed lugs at this end of the band, said lugs being formed With spaced apertures in alignment whereby to permit a Wire to be passed through one set of aligned 10 openings and returned through another set of aligned openings and thence drawn to clamp said lugs together to close the open end of the band and then bent substantially parallel to said lugs to look the same to- 15 gether.

CHARLES D. GILMAN. 

